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Mississippi Magic
Steve Anderson reached his land about mid afternoon, and hopped on his golf cart to head to a stand. […]
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Miracle Mud
The shot rang out from the direction of my son David’s stand. In my little shooting house, I quietly pumped my fist and whispered, “YES!”[…]
Currents
Like rabbits, ducks ruled by nature
Biologists have long known that it’s impossible to stockpile rabbits in the wild. Everything from foxes to hawks, coyotes to humans eats rabbits, and each year somewhere around 80 percent of the furballs die whether they’re shot by us Elmer Fudds or not.[…]
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Bionic Eyes
Why carry around binoculars when you have equal or greater magnification capabilities attached to the top of your rifle?[…]
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Cover: September 2004
What would fall be without our annual WMA Forecast?[…]
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Sunup to Sundown
Southwest Louisiana has a special place in my fishing heart. There, on the border estuary of Sabine Lake, guide Chuck Uzzle introduced me to a large harem of speckled trout some six years ago. It was the biggest stringer of gorilla trout I have ever caught — nine fish over 28 inches were released that day.[…]
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Mercury Matters
It wasn’t what any sane hunter would call a cool morning, with daybreak temperatures hovering about 72.[…]
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Lovey Dovey
Louisiana will really be a “Sportsman’s Paradise” for those outdoorsmen who enjoy the challenge of wing shooting for speedy gray bullets that buzz grain fields in the fall.[…]
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2004 Duck Forecast
As owner of Mallard Retreat, James Warrington has the option of hunting any of his five lodges from Jonesville, La., to northern Alberta, Canada, including Stuttgart, Ark., southern Alberta and North Dakota.[…]
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2004-2005 WMA Forecast
As days off and vacations were being planned for hunting in 2004-05, state wildlife biologists liked what they saw on public hunting acreage in their respective districts.[…]
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Cover: August 2004-Hunting
Want to attract and hold deer on your property? We tell you what to plant.[…]
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Permanent Plots
Let’s face it: Plowing, soil testing, liming, fertilizing, planting and killing weeds to maintain a green field includes exhausting work and often great expense. A green field, like a two-edged sword, can and will attract and feed deer.[…]
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Reminisces, Requim and Rites of Passage
Cypress Grove Hunting Club is a throwback to the days of yesteryear, when there weren’t a lot of deer in the woods, and hunting clubs were large, extended family groups that passed memberships down like knightings.[…]
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Creeping Cocodrie-Style
The red was clearly visible, relaxing just on the edge of a marshy point of grass.[…]
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Conference highlights new gun products
I love trade shows in the outdoor industry. Anytime you get to go to a big display of manufacturers’ offerings to hunting, fishing, boating and camping folks, it’s like Christmas for us big guys.[…]
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It’s Now or Never
A spectral shape darted across the shadowy bottom, disappearing behind a fallen treetop.[…]